In CI Financial Corp.’s acquisition of Sentry Investments Corp.,
Jeff Barnes (Securities and Capital Markets) acted for Sentry’s Independent Directors in a deal valued at $780 million in cash and stock, merging two of Canada’s largest independent asset managers.

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Steve Suarez, partner in BLG's
Tax Group, on one of the top 10 business decisions of 2017, BP Canada Energy v. Canada, 2017 FCA 61. The decision declined the Canada Revenue Agency’s attempt to force taxpayers to provide the Agency with the very ammunition it needed to challenge tax returns.

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